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Entries from July 2004
Official UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
July 30th, 2004 · No Comments
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Desolation Island
July 29th, 2004 · No Comments
Patrick O’Brian. Number five, and finally (almost) a cliffhanger. Certainly a story that ends with all sorts of loose ends, which I trust will be tied up eventually.
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The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa
July 21st, 2004 · No Comments
Mick Brown. In some ways a rather odd biography. Written by a British journalist who also wrote a biography of Richard Branson and the seemingly pop-culture Spiritual Tourist, this book reports myriad miracles (ancient and contemporary) in such a neutral, journalistic tone that the author seems credulous, yet also recounts interviews with antagonists on all [...]
The Mauritius Command
July 17th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Patrick O’Brian. I started this oh-so-long ago, but a whole slew of library books intervened. Another fine entry in the series.
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Walk Worthy of Your Calling: Quakers and the Traveling Ministry
July 15th, 2004 · No Comments
Edited by Margery Post Abbott and Peggy Senger Parsons. Finally finished reading the whole thing. I like how Jan and my chapter fits in. Here are selections I read at a booksigning at the Friends General Conference Gathering last week.
Kenneth Sutton, USA: I experience my public ministry largely as an elder. As such, it is [...]
Inspiring story
July 12th, 2004 · No Comments
A news story from the Star-Telegram: Pastor’s gift brings whites, blacks together via The Revealer.
Tags: · religion
Revelation Space
July 1st, 2004 · 1 Comment
Alastair Reynolds. Only 300 pages (of 476), so not a finished book, but I’m finished with it. An involving space opera, but then I was reading along very late at night, and I was curious, so I went skimming along to the end, reading a paragraph here, a paragraph there, and I decided that the [...]
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